We would like to invite you to participate in a new study conducted by Sara Prot and her team from Iowa State University.

We are interested in understanding how members of the public evaluate scientific findings on controversial topics (such as climate change, safety of vaccinations, violent video game effects, capital punishment etc.).

Fatihah: It's like your mother making spaghetti and after you taste it and don't like it, you say "well my mom must not exist". Not because their is no logical evidence but because she doesn't do what you want.

"This is the true horror of religion. It allows perfectly decent and sane people to believe by the billions, what only lunatics could believe on their own." Sam Harris
Life asked Death "Why do people love me but hate you?"
Death responded: "Because you are a beautiful lie, and I am the painful truth."

I find it interesting as I am still not sure what they are really studying. I think the whole thing about how it might have been traumatizing and where to seek help was novel, perhaps that goes to the true subject of the study. Never saw phone numbers and email addresses offered up on a study before, wondering if that is part of the study too.

"It is one of the commonest of mistakes to consider that the limit of our power of perception is also the limit of all there is to perceive." " C. W. Leadbeater

I find it interesting as I am still not sure what they are really studying. I think the whole thing about how it might have been traumatizing and where to seek help was novel, perhaps that goes to the true subject of the study. Never saw phone numbers and email addresses offered up on a study before, wondering if that is part of the study too.

Providing contact info is usual for studies in psychology and social sciences.